Geocoding Health Data: The Use of Geographic Codes in Cancer Prevention and Control, Research and Practice
ISBN: 9780429127625
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Bioscience; Mathematics & Statistics; Epidemiology; Statistics & Probability; Statistics;

In the past, disease pattern mapping depended on census tracts based on political units, such as states and counties. However, with the advent of geographic information systems (GIS), researchers can now achieve a new level of precision and flexibility in geographic locating. This emerging technology allows the mapping of many different kinds of ge


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